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Sound Off! (Dec. 28)

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12/28/2012 01:00:00 AM MST

The news in the Sun-News Saturday about our Las Cruces Police officers and State Police, it's a tough job and they don't get thanks or credit enough. Just remember when we get in danger, they are the first ones we call.

Thanks Las Cruces Sun-News for printing the Christmas lights around Las Cruces houses. We had a wonderful time touring them Friday night and thank you to the homeowners who did spectacular lights.

I have lived all over the country but I find something really strange about Las Cruces. Why do they insist on parking their cars on their front yard rather than on the street?

A comment in Peter Goodman's Sunday article about the history of the Danza tradition in Tortugas really hit home. He states that when you are in Tortugas you are somewhere, unlike many modern neighborhoods, it's a real place. The same goes doubly for Mesilla. Las Cruces residential subdivision life is not for me.

Instead of banging his head against the wall on national policy issues like gun control, Walter Rubel should bang his head against the wall about the $150 million debt that the city of Las Cruces has run up.

Reports on the right-wing blogs wrongfully claimed New Mexico driver's license are no longer valid for flights or entry to military bases. I got on WSMR with my New Mexico ID.

Mayor Ken, it is easy to join in and say you want stricter gun laws but what are you, as our mayor, going to do right now to make our schools safer for our kids?

I was raised around guns.

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My father and brother hunted. I never did. I've never killed anything with a gun but I know how to use one and I will re-up my membership for the NRA and I will legally carry a gun and if someone were to be threatened, I hope I would be able to save their lives, because the bad guys, they are not going to follow the rules.

The NRA has distorted the Second Amendment. The original text actually states that there be a two-day wait on registration. Until the 1970s when a few hundred challenged any regulations on the 2nd Amendment, gun control was in effect when the Second Amendment was originally written.

I will get my conceal carry this year and I will carry my gun, and if I have to confront someone with an automatic rifle, so be it.

The bad people will always have guns. If you disarm the good people we are sitting ducks.

The NRA's answer to the problem of everybody walking around with semi-automatic military weapons that can handle 40, 50, 60 rounds is to supply guns in the schools to teachers and to hire cops in the schools. This is the same NRA that was complaining about President Obama spending too much.

I think that any politician that takes money from the gun manufacturers, gun lobbyist, NRA or oil industry for that matter, should be voted out of office.

I would like to take this opportunity to remind all the veterans that John Kerry threw his medals away.

Obama does not want to negotiate on the fiscal cliff. If nothing gets passed, everybody gets taxed and that is exactly what he wants to happen. By not negotiating he can blame everything on the Republicans.